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COLMAN DOMINGO (Writer, Performer)
OBIE Award-winning Colman Domingo is fresh from his performances in the title role in the New York City Center Encore Summer Stars production of THE WIZ. He starred in the Tony and Drama Desk Award winning musical odyssey PASSING STRANGE on Broadway and subsequently in the Spike Lee directed film (Sundance Selects). He was in the acting company of WELL on Broadway. Colman recently won the prestigious Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in a play for his work in the world-premiere of Athol Fugard’s COMING HOME at the Tony Award-winning Long Wharf Theatre. He was a recent company member for the Sundance Theatre Lab where he starred in Taylor Mac’s THE LILY'S REVENGE. Mr. Domingo has starred Off-Broadway and regionally with theaters such as New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, M.C.C., Berkeley Rep, Huntington, The Guthrie, Long Wharf, A.C.T., Hartford Stage, San Jose Rep, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Sundance Theatre Lab, Indian Rep, Geva, and California Shakespeare Theater. Colman stars on the Rosie O’Donnell produced LOGO/MTV Networks series “The Big Gay Sketch Show” where he plays characters as diverse as Oprah, Morgan Freeman, RuPaul, Tyra Banks, Nick Cannon and Maya Angelou. Colman was the host of LOGO’s first ever “New, Now, Next Awards” show. His television credits also include co-starring on multiple episodes of the “Law & Order” franchise and he recurred on “Nash Bridges.” He has starred in the film King of the Bingo Game, the first ever screen adaptation of a Ralph Ellison story for PBS. Colman has had supporting roles in films such as Freedomland (dir. Joe Roth), True Crime (dir. Clint Eastwood) and Miracle at St. Anna (dir. Spike Lee) among many others. As a director, he staged the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway productions of EXIT CUCKOO (The Working Theater) and SINGLE BLACK FEMALE (New Professional Theater). He recently directed a workshop of the new play SMOKE for Roundabout Theatre Company and collaborated with Billboard Top Ten artist Ari Gold for the Dixon Place Hot Festival. He has also directed for Berkeley Rep, The Magic Theatre and Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Colman has received residencies and/or commissions from New York Theatre Workshop, The Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Cash Fund, New Professional Theatre and the March of Dimes. He is on faculty of The National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. He is the recipient of five Dean Goodmans, a Bay Area Theater Critics Circle and a Drama-Logue Award. For more information, visit www.colmandomingo.com.

KEN ROBERSON (Choreographer)
Broadway and New York City credits: Tony Award-winning musical AVENUE Q, ALL SHOOK UP, PURLIE (Encores series), HARLEM SONG and JELLY’S LAST JAM (Assistant Choreographer). Other credits: GUYS AND DOLLS, CAROLINE OR CHANGE, THE COLOR PURPLE (world-premiere), BLUES IN THE NIGHT and RAY CHARLES LIVE. Director/choreographer: CROWNS, AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’, SPUNK, ONCE ON THIS ISLAND and LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR AND GRILL. Film and Television credits: Preaching to the Choir, Lackawanna Blues (Fish Fry Guest) and “House of Buggin” (Emmy Award nomination).

TONY KELLY (Director)
Off-Broadway debut. Regional: 41 productions as co-founder and director of Thick Description in San Francisco, including the original production of A BOY AND HIS SOUL, world premieres by Octavio Solis (SANTOS & SANTOS and EL OTRO), Will Power (THE SEVEN), Yussef el-Guindi (BACK OF THE THROAT), David Conte (AMERICA TROPICAL and FIREBIRD MOTEL with libretti by Oliver Mayer and David Yezzi), and Oliver Mayer (JOE LOUIS BLUES), and West Coast premieres by Suzan-Lori Parks (THE AMERICA PLAY and VENUS), David Greenspan (DEAD MOTHER and 2 SAMUEL 11, ETC.) and Karen Hartman (ALICE: TALES OF A CURIOUS GIRL). Also: Jose Rivera’s CLOUD TECTONICS at the B Street Theatre, Sacramento, Oliver Mayer’s BLADE TO THE HEAT, Octavio Solis’s GIBRALTAR, Ibsen’s Ghosts and Chekhov’s UNCLE VANYA at the San Jose Stage Company, and other productions in Pittsburgh, San Jose, San Francisco, and the California and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festivals.

RACHEL HAUCK (Set Design)
Recent New York work includes: ETHEL’S TRUCKSTOP (BAM Next Wave Festival), THE FEVER CHART, THE POOR ITCH (Public Lab), BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES (Hourglass and 37 Arts), 100 SAINTS YOU SHOULD KNOW (Playwrights Horizons), 1001 (Page 73), CATARACT and ANTIGONE PROJECT (Women’s Project), WHERE DO WE LIVE, FOURTH SISTER (Vineyard), TALKING HEADS (Minnetta Lane), TONGUE OF A BIRD (Public), SQUARE (Ma-Yi/Public). Recent regional work includes ION (Shakespeare Theater DC), THE ROAD TO MECCA (Seattle Rep),THE MUSIC MAN, OTHELLO, CHERRY ORCHARD, THE WINTER’S TALE, RICHARD III, HEDDA GABLER (OSF), MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Hartford Stage), SLEEPING COUNTRY (Cincinnati Playhouse), KING LEAR (Cal Shakes), BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER (Hartford Stage), WATER AND POWER, CHAVEZ RAVINE, ELECTRICIDAD (Mark Taper Forum), MOTHER COURAGE (Berkley Rep/La Jolla Playhouse). Resident Scenic Designer at the O’Neill Playwrights Festival since 2005.

TONI-LESLIE JAMES (Costume Design)
Broadway: FINIAN’S RAINBOW, CHITA RIVERA: THE DANCER’S LIFE, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM, ONE MO’ TIME, KING HEDLEY II, THE WILD PARTY (Fany Award), MARIE CHRISTINE, FOOTLOOSE, THE TEMPEST (Drama Desk nomination), TWILIGHT: LOST ANGELES 1992, ANGELS IN AMERICA, CHRONICLE OF DEATH FORETOLD, JELLY’S LAST JAM (Tony & Drama Desk nominations, Hewes Design Award & LA Drama-Logue Award). Off-Broadway: WIG OUT! (Vineyard Theatre), BERNARDA ALBA (Hewes Design Award nomination), DESSA ROSE, ELEGIES, A NEW BRAIN, GOD’S HEART, HELLO AGAIN, MACBETH, HENRY VIII, DANCING ON HER KNEES, INSURRECTION, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, EAST TEXAS HOT LINKS, DOG OPERA, THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE (Drama Desk & Hewes Design Award nominations), SPUNK. Television: Three specials for WNET/13 “Great Performances series,” “As The World Turns,” “Whoopi” (NBC). Film: The Huey P. Newton Story, A Tale of Two Pizzas and Tightrope. Recipient of an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence, Connecticut Critics Circle Award and Irene Sharaff Young Masters Award for Costume Excellence.

MARCUS DOSHI (Lighting Design)
Recent projects of note include THINGS OF DRY HOURS with NYTW, OTHELLO (Lortel Nomination) & HAMLET (Drama Desk Nomination) with Theatre for a New Audience, FIRST BREEZE OF SUMMER (Audelco Award) with Signature Theatre, ELEKTRA with Seattle Opera and the Khmer Rock Opera WHERE ELEPHANTS WEEP in Phnom Penh,Cambodia. As a company member of Moving Theater he has participated in the creation of WITHOUT, MASS PARTICLE No. 1, IMPERMANENT COLLECTION, and LAST DANCE. Marcus also works extensively with the Khmer Arts Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Sophiline Cheam Shapiro. Projects include SAMRITECHAK, PAMINA DEVI, and the upcoming LIVES OF GIANTS. His work has been seen internationally in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam, Castres, Venice, Vienna, Mumbai and Delhi among others. Selected NYC & Regional include: The New Group, Soho Rep, The Joyce, The Mint, Lincoln Center, Chicago Shakespeare, Seattle Rep, Portland Center Stage, Yale Rep, Hartford Stage Company, Virginia Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Greenwich Music Festival and Florentine Opera. Marcus is a recipient of the TCG/National Endowment for the Arts 2003-2005 Career Development Program Grant. He holds degrees from Wabash College and the Yale School of Drama. More at www.marcusdoshi.com.

TOM MORSE (Sound Design)
Recently created the sound for PASSING STRANGE on Broadway and for film. In the past, his Broadway designs - over 50 in all - have included Neil Simon’s JAKES WOMEN, LOST IN YONKERS, RUMORS, BROADWAY BOUND, BILOXI BLUES, BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS, ODD COUPLE, THEY’RE PLAYING OUR SONG, LITTLE ME, FOOLS. Additional credits include GOOD VIBRATIONS, FOOL MOON, BLAST, MACBETH, GREASE, ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, ME AND MY GIRL, ARTIST DESCENDING A STAIRCASE, AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’, DROOD, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, PETER ALLEN: UP IN ONE, STOP THE WORLD.

WINNIE Y. LOK (Production Stage Manager)
Off-Broadway: MONSTROSITY (13P), THINGS OF DRY HOURS (NYTW), THE GOOD NEGRO, COUNTY OF KINGS: THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE, ROMEO AND JULIET (The Public/NYSF), 2008 and 2009 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, I _ NY, Labfest 2008 (Ma-Yi Theatre Company), THE FIRST BREEZE OF SUMMER, PARADISE PARK, QUEENS BOULEVARD (The Musical), IPHIGENIA 2.0, KING HEDLEY II, TWO TRAINS RUNNING, SEVEN GUITARS, LANDSCAPE OF THE BODY, THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL (Signature Theatre Company). Regional: MENOPAUSE, THE MUSICAL (Coronet Theater), APOLLO, PART I: LEBENSRAUM, THE VERY PERSISTENT GAPPERS OF FRIP, A PERFECT WEDDING (Kirk Douglas Theatre), A WINTER PEOPLE (The Theatre @ Boston Court), M. BUTTERFLY (East West Players), SLANGUAGE, SEX PARASITE (Taper, Too), WING ON WING (Walt Disney Concert Hall), TOPDOG/UNDERDOG, NICKEL AND DIMED (Mark Taper Forum).

DOUGLAS AIBEL (Artistic Director, Vineyard Theatre) was the first recipient of the Ross Wetzsteon Obie Award for his work with The Vineyard and was pleased to accept special Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards for The Vineyard’s body of work. Mr. Aibel is also widely known in the film world as a casting director, with credits including: We Own The Night, The Squid and the Whale, The Royal Tenenbaums, Signs, Dead Man Walking, Kinsey, The Village, The Life Aquatic, Little Odessa, Cradle Will Rock, Fresh, The Myth Of Fingerprints, Unbreakable, Bob Roberts, Five Corners, The Dying Gaul, Margot at the Wedding. Upcoming: All Good Things, The Rebound, The Baster and Margaret.

VINEYARD THEATRE is a non-profit theatre company dedicated to new work, bold programming and the support of artists. One of America’s preeminent centers for the creation of new plays and musicals, Vineyard Theatre has consistently premiered provocative, groundbreaking works by both new and established writers. From our Broadway successes AVENUE Q and [title of show], to two Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas — Paula Vogel’s HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE and Edward Albee’s THREE TALL WOMEN — to such notable projects as Nicky Silver’s PTERODACTYLS, Becky Mode’s FULLY COMMITTED, Craig Lucas’ THE DYING GAUL, Christopher Shinn’s WHERE DO WE LIVE, Cornelius Eady’s BRUTAL IMAGINATION, Gina Gionfriddo’s AFTER ASHLEY, the Laura Nyro musical ELI'S COMIN', Anne Washburn’s THE INTERNATIONALIST, Julia Cho’s THE PIANO TEACHER, Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy’s THE SLUG BEARERS OF KAYROL ISLAND and Jenny Schwartz’s GOD'S EAR, and last season’s acclaimed runs of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s WIG OUT! and THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY — we strive to produce new work that challenges both our audiences and artists. It is our goal to bring a spirit of adventure and risk to the art of making theatre. We’re proud to be the recipient of special Obie Award, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel awards for Sustained Excellence.